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Gig Listings
| Tuesday 16th March | Venue | Time | Price |  | Crooked Still
Rock energy coexists with old-time mountain soul. Spooky backwoods melodies combine with hip hard-hitting beats. Raw, searing blues riffs intermingle with high heavenly vocals. The unlikely combination of banjo, cello, and double-bass drives this low lonesome band, whose captivating vocals and high-wire solos have enraptured audiences all over North America and Ireland since 2001. | Whelans, Wexford Street. | 8.30pm | €17.50 (€15.50) |
| Sunday 21st March | Venue | Time | Price | | Scullion
The legendary band play an all too rare Dublin concert. Sonny Condell, one of the finest singer/songwriters in Ireland over the last twenty years with fifteen albums to his name.
Philip King, singer, songwriter, broadcaster and producer of Other Voices, and ace guitar player Robbie Overson.
| The Button Factory, Templebar, D2. | 8.00pm start | €17.50 (€16) |
| Saturday 27th March | Venue | Time | Price | | Glenn Tilbrook & Nine Below Zero
When Squeeze’s songwriting engine, powered by Glenn Tilbrook and Chris Difford, spluttered to a halt in 1999 after an eventful 25-year journey, there was never any question what the former would do. Over the past nine years Glenn has toured the world constantly, wowing audiences with his down-to-earth, impassioned style. A night watching Glenn performing is not like watching any other British solo artist. You see, no-one else involves his audience in the way that Glenn does. Welcoming his crowd with his customary greeting of “Alright, loves?” Glenn establishes an immediate rapport with every audience he encounters, from Tokyo to Texas.
Glenn’s performances contain a mixture of Squeeze numbers and tracks from his highly-acclaimed solo albums, 2001’s ‘The Incomplete Glenn Tilbrook’ and ‘Transatlantic Ping Pong’, released in 2004. | The Village, Wexford Street. | 8.30pm | €25 (€23) |
| Friday 16th April | Venue | Time | Price | | Mary Coughlan
"Mary Coughlan is an impassioned performer who expresses herself best through the words and tunes of others. Her impressive new album has all the swaggering "nu-chanson" of artists such as Arthur H or the Tiger Lillies but with an extra, more accessible dimension. She knows it's not enough to sing literate words over competent backing - the sound must embody the meaning of the songs. Coughlan is not a rock singer, but she gives pieces such as Moon in a Taxi Cab an authenticity that few rockers retain after their first flush. Neither is she a jazzer, yet she wraps her voice around the contours of Some Cats Know (Leiber and Stoller) as sexily as Peggy Lee in her prime. She can do scary, too: witness the eloquent bile of Antarctica, and the pounding, punishing Whore of Babylon. Tom Waits has met his Irish match" The Guardian '09 | The Cherrytree, Walkinstown Cross, D12. | 9 pm | €20 (€17) |
| Saturday 24th April | Venue | Time | Price | | Mick Hanly & Arty Mc Glynn
Mick Hanly is one of Ireland's finest singer/songwriters and is best known for his song 'Past the Point of Rescue' made famous by Hal Ketchum in the USA and Mary Black in Ireland. Mick has been singing and writing since the 1970's, which included a time as lead singer with "Moving Hearts".
Arty is one of the most sought after musicians in the country, playing and recording with the likes of Christy Moore, Paul Brady, Donal Lunny and Liam O'Flynn, Mick Hanly etc. He played as a member of such prestigious groups as Planxty, Patrick Street, De Danann and the Van Morrison Band. | The Cherrytree, Walkinstown Cross, D12. | 9pm | €17 (€15) |
| Monday 26th April | Venue | Time | Price | | Dick Gaughan
Gaughan was brought up immersed in the musical traditions and culture of the Gaels, both Scots and Irish, which naturally, therefore, provide the foundation for everything he does. He has been a professional musician and singer since Jan 1970. Working mainly in the areas now known as "Folk" or "Celtic" music, he has recorded quite extensively since then in many countries and in various combinations. | Whelans, Wexford Street. | 8.30pm | €18.50 (€16.50) |
| Saturday 15th May | Venue | Time | Price | | Freddie White
Freddie White
Freddie White has long been synonymous with music of the highest quality. Whether interpreting songs by his favourite writers, such as Randy Newman, Tom Waits, John Hiatt and Guy Clark, or performing his own classy compositions, Freddie’s live performances are nothing short of legendary.
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| Monday 17th May | Venue | Time | Price | | Sandi Thom & Band
Sandi Thom is a Scottish singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Macduff in Aberdeenshire. She became widely known in 2006 after a series of webcasts secured her a record deal with RCA and the success of the single "I Wish I Was a Punk Rocker (With Flowers in My Hair)". Click names in blue for link to hear sample. Save 2euro per ticket by reserving using the ticket section. | Whelans, Wexford Street. | 8.30pm | €20 (€18) |
| Saturday 29th May | Venue | Time | Price | | Andy Irvine
Andy Irvine has been hailed as "a tradition in himself." Musician, singer and songwriter, Andy has maintained both personal integrity and highly individual performing skills throughout his 40-year career. From Sweeney's Men in the mid sixties to the enormous success of Planxty in the 70s, to THE Irish super group, Patrick Street, in the 80s, Andy has been a world music pioneer and icon for traditional music and musicians. Loin musiclee, reserve on line and save 3€ per ticket. | The Cherrytree, Walkinstown Cross, D12. | 9 pm | €20 (€17) |
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